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Master Limited Partnerships: A Simple Way to Put More Cash in Your Pocket

It's nonnegotiable. This market is simply too volatile to be taking long shots. You have to be prepared for the next potential market dip, and that means having a steady stream of "bonus" cash coming in on a regular basis.

Unfortunately, interest rates right now are absurdly low, junk bonds are too risky, and high-yielding stocks are few and far in between.

MLPs, for those not familiar, are tax-advantaged limited partnerships whose units are traded on exchanges just like common shares of stock.

However, a key difference between MLPs and stocks is that MLPs pay very high yields – typically 5% to 12%. This is because U.S. law mandates that they pass most of their income on to unit holders.

Still, being limited partnerships, their ordinary shareholders do not suffer unlimited liability (as they would in a regular partnership) and so can treat their investment as if it was in an ordinary company.

However, because their income is not taxed at the partnership level, the government limits the kinds of businesses that can use the MLP structure. It's restricted primarily to operations engaged in the extraction, storage, and transportation of energy commodities, which are deemed essential to the U.S. economy and national security.

As a result, MLPs derive 90% of their income from natural resources – primarily oil, natural gas, and coal production and transportation.

Two especially attractive businesses for the MLP structure are pipelines and ownership of existing oil resources. Pipelines generally charge a fixed fee per unit of product carried, so they earn a steady return that can safely be paid out to investors. Existing oil and gas fields incur no exploration costs and only limited production costs. Meanwhile, their exposure to oil and gas prices can be hedged in the futures market, so they, too, can safely pay a fixed dividend to investors.

MLPs economically bear more resemblance to fixed income investments than to regular shares. However, the drawback is generally very little upside potential, except through variation in oil and gas prices.

Additionally, if the MLP is invested in a finite pool of oil or gas, there is a finite lifetime to it, and the income to investors may be accompanied by a gradual loss of principal. Fortunately, MLP tax treatment accounts for this, and so a large portion of each year's dividends is considered a return of principal. That may have advantages to some investors holding MLPs in taxable accounts.

MLPs are generally not very risky, and bear a strong resemblance to each other, so even though there are two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that invest in MLPs – the Alerian MLP ETF (NYAE: AMLP) and JP Morgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (NYSE: AMJ) – there does not seem to be much advantage.

Instead, you're better off investing in one of the following three high-yielding MLPs:

BreitBurn Energy Partners (Nasdaq: BBEP): BBEP primarily invests in oil and gas properties in the Antrim Shale in northern Michigan, the Los Angeles Basin, Wyoming, Florida, and Kentucky. Unlike many MLPs, it does a considerable amount of exploration, so while its income is more risky, it is not self-liquidating. To ensure a steady cash flow, BBEP hedges its output for up to three years forward. This produces a stable cash flow but a wildly fluctuating income when oil prices bounce up and down. Thus, in the third quarter of 2011, BBEP reported net income of $2.87 per share as oil prices dropped, giving it a large profit on its forward hedges of three years' production. Operating EBITDA was about 90 cents per share and the company declared an increased quarterly dividend of $0.435 per share, or $1.74 per year, on the basis of which its yield is 9.8%. Since it's also trading at 14% below net asset value, BBEP looks like a good deal on both an income and a capital basis.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP (NYSE:PVR): Penn Virginia operates in two segments, coal and natural resource management, which manages and leases coal properties, and natural gas midstream, which offers gas processing, gathering, and other related services. It's somewhat diversified, with steady income but also has exposure to rising resource prices. Its quarterly dividend of $0.50 has risen steadily since 2003 and has doubled in that period. Net income currently does not quite cover the dividend, but cash flow is ample and there are many MLPs with worse income positions. It currently yields 7.7% but is trading at 4.4 times book value.

TC Pipelines LP (Nasdaq: TCLP): TC Pipelines transports natural gas in the United States and eastern Canada and owns 46.5% of Great Lakes Gas Transmission LP. Unlike many of these companies, its earnings cover its divided – $3.11 per share in the last four quarters, compared with a 77-cent quarterly dividend totaling $3.08. Being a pipeline, it has the advantage of very steady earnings, and yields 6.8%. That may not exciting, but it's still more than three-times Treasuries for a cash flow that is bond-like in its assuredness.

I invest in PWE and MWE and have been pretty fortunate so far with excellent returns and good yields. MWE has more than doubled from when I bought it and just keep reinvesting the distributions back into additional shares. Hopefully when I retire in a few years my IRA's will be able to provide a good income stream for me.

I'm trying to get all of the information regarding the "10-86" plan that is on the web. The vidio is incomplete. When ist gets to the place for the information the vidio stops and then if prompted to get it started it begins all over. Can someone get the details to me so that I can give some considertion to this.

Dear Mr. Hutchinson:
Would you please tell me IF I buy BBEP, dividend payout= $0.45 per share is the same as dividend Yield= 9.94 % (Which I understand is annual interest), Are these the same payout ??
Thanks a lot for your great articles.
Louis Angelo Cervantes

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